I like this idea and wanted to make it (or something approximating it) myself, but I got hung up on the concern that a location-centric "Who's getting up in $CITY?" webapp would, after achieving some traction, turn it into a useful tool to facilitate the citation/arrest of some of my favorite artists and writers.
On one hand, all of these pieces already show up on Instagram nearly instantaneously, usually geotagged or at least in identifiable locations. But I just couldn't shake the feeling that collating that data might have unintended consequences.
http://publicart.io
- Rails backend API and iOS app frontend
- Nearly 500k images added monthly
- This is the current iteration for a 16 week research project of graffiti/street art related software projects